Hinge Wounds

Wolfensberger notes that certain Wounds are 'hinge' wounds- those that lead directly to other wounds,

For instance, 'Relegation' leads directly to 'Rejection' which in turn leads directly to wounds 3-7.

Loss of Control (7) in turn leads to wounds 8-12, and Involuntary Material Poverty (12) leads to wounds 13-16.

Wounds List:

1 Relegation to low (‘deviant’) status

2 Rejection, perhaps by family, neighbours, community, society, service

workers

3 Cast into one or more Historical Deviancy Roles

4 Symbolical Stigmatising, ‘marking’, ‘deviancy-imaging’, ‘branding’

5 Being Multiply Jeopardised, scape-goated

6 Distantiation: usually via Segregation and also Congregation

7 Loss of Control, perhaps even autonomy and freedom.

8 Physical Discontinuity with the environment and objects

9 Social and Relationship Discontinuity, even abandonment

10 Denial of True Human Companionship

Absence or loss of natural/freely-given relationships, and substitution of

artificial/’boughten’ ones

11 Deindividualisation

12 Involuntary Material Poverty, material/financial exploitation.

13 Impoverishment of Experience, especially that of the typical, valued

world.

14 Exclusion From Value Systems

Exclusion from knowledge of, and participation in, higher order

value systems

(e.g. religion) that give meaning and direction to life, and provide

community.

15 Having One’s Life ‘Wasted’

16 Extreme Negative Treatment

Being the object of Brutalisation, ‘killing thoughts’, and deathmaking.

Hinge Wounds Underlined

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